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Poems for Inter-textual connection ('Lady Lazarus' by Sylvia Plath…
Poems for Inter-textual connection
'Lady Lazarus' by Sylvia Plath
Theme
Death
Violence
Suffering
Rebirth
Rising above circumstances
Powerlessness
Language feature
Allusion (ww1/ holocast/ cats have nine lives/ Phoenix bird
Hyperbole (to annihilate each decade
Enjambment (line 2 & 3 and more)
Anaphora (line 49 & 50)
Irony ( Do not think I underestimate your great concern )
Imagery
Lots of violent, gory imagery. However, the protagonist enjoys grossing out people. While she is victim (the Nazis do kill her), she doesn't act scared and Plath doesn't try to make her sympathetic.'
The use of first person invites the audience to imagine being lady Lazarus. On the one hand, this is bizarre as she is a grotesque victim but on the other hand, this character is also a powerful violent and angry force of nature that can't be stopped, even in death. This is a character who enjoys her power and doesn't see the harm done to her as a real threat.
A story from lady Lazarus' point of view should make the audience feel powerful, strong, confident, creepy and weird. Conversely, a story from someone else seeing her should be completely terrifying and disgusting.
You can read this poem as a semi- biographical piece. Plath nearly drowned at the age of ten and attempted suicide later in life. These could be the first two instances of rebirth she refers to in the poem and that would then have interesting impacts on the next future rebirth she refers to at the end. Perhaps Plath previously felt like a victim in life, but now, she has decided to appraoch with anger, passion and defiance, as represented by the phoenix imagery at the end.
The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost
Theme
Making choice about life
Adventure
Man and the nature
Future (dreams, hopes and plans)
Language feature
Extended Metaphor (Two roads diverged in a yellow wood)
Personification (It was grassy and wanted wear)
Epiphany (And that has made all the difference)
'Porphyria's lover ' by Robert Browning
Theme
Love
sin
power
purity
murder
Passivity
Society and class
Language feature
Personification
Simile
Metaphor
Aliteration
Browing Wanted to make a point, but was worried no one wanted to listen. How dis he try to get attention? SHOCKING VIOLENCE. Browing believed that it is worse offending someone's sensibility if it gets them thinking about issues.
Browning begins to describe Porphyria undressing and talking about how she may no longer resist 'her passions'. He clearly is trying to get the audience to think about sex, but he then kills the character before any more cloths come off. The murderer seems to love Porphyria as a pure person, and he wants to 'protect' her but only in one of the most creepy, sexist wand patronizing way possible). Simply put, the murder would rather Porphyria be pure than alive
Most of the language is relatively naturally for the time period, but perhaps a little formal. This is because a gentleman committing violence is more surprising to an audience. The poem also mimics bits of romantic poetry. If asked half way through, most readers would think they are reading a love poem.
'Ozymandias' by PS Shelly
Theme
Creativity transcends time
Art
Pride
Nothing lasts forever
Language features
Allusion (antique land)
Dramatic Irony (Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and Despair)
Alliteraion
'Dulce et Decorum Est' by Wilfred Owen
theme
Warfare
Horror
Suffering
version of reality
Politics and propaganda
over glorification of war
Disfigurement
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Language features
Simile (like old beggars)
Irony (Distant rest/ like a devil's sick of sins)
Casura (men Marched asleep.)
Metaphor (Drunk with fatigue/ green sea)
Oxymoron (Desperate glory/ ecstasy of fumbling)
Felt a Funeral in my Brain' by Emily Dickinson
Theme
Mortality
Suffering
Death
End of mental sanity
Loneliness
Depression
Existential Crisis
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Language features
Simile
(A service, like a drum)
Metaphor (Funeral, As all the Heavens were a Bell)
Personification (I, and Silence, some strange Race/Sense was breaking through/ My mind was going Numb
Alliteration (Felt, funeral/ treading, treading, till/ silence, stange/ But, being)
onomatopoeia (Beating, beating/ creak)
Imagery( Treading/ breaking/ seated, drum)
The Funeral is a metaphor. This stands out as a particularly strong literally device as she uses similes at other points. The language is also odd because she speaks about many elements of a funeral and death in a rather cold,emotionless manner (her head becomes her brain, and her coffin is just a 'box')
She also likes to play with ideas about identity. She references her brain, soul, senses, reason and being. It is sometimes hard to tell which of these things best represent the speaker and which are things she is losing.